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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about how to avoid carb withdrawal symptoms when you start keto.

Sometimes people are scared to start a ketogenic diet or a low carb diet because they're

afraid of the symptoms. It's going to be too painful. They might get irritable, grouchy, lightheaded,

craving like crazy, tired, and hungry all the time. So of course, who would want to start a

ketogenic plan if you're going to go

through this? But the truth is, there's a way to do it to avoid these symptoms. So these are some

real basic things that I really want you to understand. What we're trying to do is we're trying

to switch you from running on sugar to running on fat fuel as your primary energy. And yes, it does take some time. It does take three

days, but sometimes it can happen in a day. Sometimes it takes a week, but there's a couple ways to

make it very, very comfortable. Number one, do it gradually, okay? What you do is you have three meals a day and no snacks. Add fat to the meal for the purpose of going longer. Okay, that would be number one. And I did put a video down below for those of you that are new so you know how to do that. But doing it gradually, you really

won't have any withdrawal symptoms. The symptoms are not detoxification. It's not a detox of

sugar. What it is, it's simply your blood sugars are coming down. That's all. And you just

haven't adapted. Your cells in your body, not including the brain,

have to develop machinery to burn fat. Okay. And that takes some time. They're enzymes. So that's really

what happens in the body. But as far as the brain goes, that machinery is already there. You don't need to adapt to ketones in your brain, which is very interesting. So what determines what your brain is going to run on is whatever's in your blood. Okay? So if you have glucose in the blood,

it'll run on that. If you have ketones in the blood, it'll run on that. If you have glucose

and ketones in the blood at the same time, your brain will run on ketones as the preferred

fuel, which is interesting. So what is the significance of that? Well, one thing you can do,

if you want to really not have any of these symptoms, is just to take ketones. Okay, you can take

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